Help With Expressing Cross Ep Plex Name Scheme (S00E00-E00)

[PikuChan]

Hey, so this Ed Edd n Eddy rip I have has an incredibly strange naming scheme. The episodes are labelled as an episode per two 11 min episodes. In other words the singular video files are composed of what is actually two episodes. So the first file in this should actually be named S01E01-E02 to signify that that file contains Episode 1 and Episode 2.

The title of the episodes, however, is very consistent. The naming scheme here is {t; }{t}, is there any way to, through expressions, state that I want, for example, episode 1 here to be named s01e01-e02, and to do that in sequence for all of the files where multiple episodes are separated by semicolons?



For example, the file on the right is what all the files in the directory below should look like, relatively.




The problem with this however is that the episode format is screwed from the get-go, because episode 1 is ep 1-2, and ep 2 is 3-4, so there's an exponential offset that filebot would need to ignore.

I don't think I'd ever be able to learn expression coding that is this complex. And I've looked everywhere for an introduction to expressions, I'm a complete noob to this, and would appreciate some help, sorry for the crude and likely cringeworthy display of misunderstanding.

[rednoah]

FileBot can deal with multi-episode patterns, but not necessarily in all worst-case scenarios.

I recommend reading FAQ #2 and just matching things manually.

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNSv7AnMMw

[PikuChan]

FileBot can deal with multi-episode patterns, but not necessarily in all worst-case scenarios.

I recommend reading FAQ #2 and just matching things manually.

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNSv7AnMMw

The issue with that method is that I can't do that, simply put.

The files are two in one. As in Episode 1x01 and 1x02 are in the single file. They are not split.

I need a way of sequentially adding "e00-e00" after the title. Filebot recognizes this when I manually input the cross episode sequence, but I have no way of having it do this for me.

[rednoah]

You could use the List panel to just generate sequential list of episode names, and rename with that first:

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Ed, Edd n Eddy - S01E{((index*2)-1).pad(2)}-E{(index*2).pad(2)}

That'll generate lines of text like this that you can use for renaming:

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Ed, Edd n Eddy - S01E01-E02
...

And once you get you have nicer names you can use TheTVDB mode as usual to add the episode title.

[PikuChan]

You could use the List panel to just generate sequential list of episode names, and rename with that first:

Code: Select all

Ed, Edd n Eddy - S01E{((index*2)-1).pad(2)}-E{(index*2).pad(2)}

That'll generate lines of text like this that you can use for renaming:

Code: Select all

Ed, Edd n Eddy - S01E01-E02
...

And once you get you have nicer names you can use TheTVDB mode as usual to add the episode title.

I've found that sadly, plex doesn't support this method. I mean, it does, but it just duplicates entries, and it's just generally nasty. So I'ma just split things in Mkvmerge, and use filebot to recover from the filename mess that results, then I'll have all my entries, perfected. Thank the lord for filebot.